The Making of High-performance Athletes: Discipline, Diversity, and Ethics

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University of Toronto Press, Jan 1, 1999 - Sports & Recreation - 133 pages

Highly skilled athletes are produced by technologies of training which seek to create the athlete as a singular identity. Yet the disciplinary model of modern sport is consistently disrupted by the diversity and hybridity of the participants. Using Foucault's work on disciplinary power as a theoretical framework, Debra Shogan, an academic in sports ethics and a coach of high performance athletes, examines the ways in which athletes are produced through technologies of training and the ethical issues which emerge when demands to improve performance envelopes athletes, coaches, administrators and sports scientists in decisions about how far to push the limits of performance. Making the case for a new, postmodern sports ethic, Shogan shows how the juxtaposition of hybrid athletes with the homogenizing technologies of sport discipline opens up spaces for questioning, refusing, and perhaps creating new ways of participating in sport.

 

Contents

Disciplinary Technologies of Sport
18
Hybrid Athletes
45
Ethical Issues and the Scholarly Field of Sport Ethics
75
Possibilities for a New Sport
88
Notes
103
References
119
Index
131
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About the author (1999)

Deborah Shogan is a professor in the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, University of Alberta and a former coach of high performance athletes.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Making of High-performance Athletes: Discipline, Diversity, and Ethics
Heritage Series
AuthorDebra A. Shogan
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press, 1999
ISBN0802082017, 9780802082015
Length133 pages
Subjects › 

Sports & Recreation / Sports Psychology
  
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